99% of the time when a book I enjoy gets a major studio movie treatment the result is garbage, though. So I imagine the opposite of delight.

When I first learned of the movie, I thought it would be a small/indi film that I'd have to dig up from my local library archives. Then I learned it was going to be a "blockbuster" and had mixed feelings - still pretty excited! I'm sure there will be about a dozen "that's not how it was in the book" moments but whatever, can't be worse than the last movie I saw at the theater (Dial of Destiny)

The Martian is an excellent movie based on one of the best scifi books. Gives me a lot of hope for the Project Hail Mary movie.

To my understanding the Martian was originally written as web serial, right?

I haven’t seen the movie. Not personally my type of film although I’ve heard good things.

I finished The Martian and then immediately discovered there was a movie coming out in two weeks. That was pretty cool.

No movie was ever going to do the book any justice. The journal-like structure of the book turned every chapter into an adventure, whereas the movie was just a space movie.

It was a very good space movie, though.

It doesn't replace the book, of course, but I thought it stood fine on its own.